Literary Movements of ENGLISH Literature (1500-1660)

1500-1558: Tudor Period: humanist era
Thomas More, John Skelton

1558-1603 Elizabethan Period: High Renaissance
Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare

1603-1625 Jacobean Period: Mannerist style also Metaphysical and Devotional poets
Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert

1625-1649 Caroline Period
John Ford, John Milton

1649-1660 The commonwealth and the Protectorate: Baroque style and later Roccoco style
Milton, Andrew Marvel, Thomas Hobbes

1660-1700 The Restoration
John Dryden

1700-1800 The 18th Century: The Englightenment, Neoclassical Period, The Augustan Age
Alexander Pope, Johnothan Swift, Samuel Johnson

1785-1830 Romanticism: The age of revolution
William Wordsworth, ST Colridge

1830-1901 Victorian Period: Early, Middle and late victorian
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, robert Browning, Alfred

1901-1960 Modern Period: The Edwardian Era/ The Georgian Era
G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot

1960- Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowels, Don DeLillo, A.S Byatt




Literary Movements of the Early 17th Century:

  • Amatory Fiction:
-Romantic Fiction written in the 17th century and 18th century, primarily written by women.
NOTABLE AUTHORS: Eliza Haywood, Delarivier Manley
  • Cavalier Poets:
-17th century english royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson)
NOTABLE AUTHORS:Richard Lovelace, William Davenant

  • Metaphysical Poets:
-used extended conceit oftentimes about religion
NOTABLE AUTHORS: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
  • The Augustans:
-based mainly on classical ideals, satire and skepticism
NOTABLE AUTHORS: Alexander Pope, Johathan Swift

  • Romanticism:
-Emphasis of emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thoughts. This period was a response to the Enlightenment.
NOTABLE AUTHORS: Victor Hugo, Lord Byron

  • Gothic novel:
-Romantic ideals are combined with an interest in the supernatural and the violence.
NOTABLE AUTHORS: Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker

  • Lake Poets:
- Romantic poets from the english lake district who wrote about nature and the sublime.
NOTABLE AUTHORS: William wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM

-Distinct from European Romantisicm, American form emerged slightly later, darkest aspects of American History

PRE-RAPHAELISM

-focused on undoing paintings of Raphael many were both painters and poets.

TRANSCENDENTALISM

-poetry and philosophy concerned with self- reliance and independence from modern technology

REALISM

-Late-19th century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns.

SYMBOLISM

-Principally French movement based on structure of thought rather than poetic form or image.

MODERNISM

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main ideas are formal innovations and reactions to science and technology

FIRST WORLD WAR POETS

-poets who wrote about the ideals/ horrors of the first world war

POST-MODERNISM

-a postwar movement highlighting diversity, irony and word play.

CONFESSIONAL POETRY

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poetry that bluntly, and often brutally, exposes oneself as the part of the beauty and power of human frailty.

MAGICAL REALISM

-magical elements appear in a realistic perspective.

POST COLONISM

-oftentimes a politically-charged movement. members were from former european colonies.